Setting vs. Location

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Settingverb

present participle of set

Settingnoun

The time, place and circumstance in which something (such as a story or picture) is set; context; scenario.

Settingnoun

The act of setting.

Settingnoun

A piece of metal in which a precious stone or gem is fixed to form a piece of jewelry.

Settingnoun

A level or placement that a knob or control is set to.

Settingnoun

The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does.

Settingnoun

Hunting with a setter.

Settingnoun

Something set in, or inserted.

Settingnoun

A piece of vocal or choral music composed for particular words (set to music).

Settingadjective

that disappears below the horizon

Settingnoun

The act of one who, or that which, sets; as, the setting of type, or of gems; the setting of the sun; the setting (hardening) of moist plaster of Paris; the setting (set) of a current.

Settingnoun

The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does; also, hunting with a setter.

Settingnoun

Something set in, or inserted.

Settingnoun

That in which something, as a gem, is set; as, the gold setting of a jeweled pin.

Settingnoun

the time, place, and circumstances in which an event (real or fictional) occurs; as, the setting of a novel.

Settingnoun

the context and environment in which something is set;

Settingnoun

the state of the environment in which a situation exists;

Settingnoun

arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted

Settingnoun

the physical position of something;

Settingnoun

a table service for one person;

Settingnoun

mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place;

Settingadjective

(of a heavenly body) disappearing below the horizon;

Locationnoun

A particular point or place in physical space.

Locationnoun

An act of locating.

Locationnoun

(South Africa) An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township.

Locationnoun

(legal) A leasing on rent.

Locationnoun

A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.

Locationnoun

The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc.

Locationnoun

The act or process of locating.

Locationnoun

Situation; place; locality.

Locationnoun

That which is located; a tract of land designated in place.

Locationnoun

A leasing on rent.

Locationnoun

a point or extent in space

Locationnoun

the act of putting something in a certain place or location

Locationnoun

a determination of the location of something;

Locationnoun

a particular place or position

Locationnoun

an actual place or natural setting in which a film or broadcast is made, as distinct from a simulation in a studio

Locationnoun

the action of locating someone or something

Locationnoun

a position or address in computer memory.

Locationnoun

an area where black South Africans were obliged by apartheid laws to live, usually on the outskirts of a town or city. The term was later replaced by township.

Location

In geography, location or place are used to denote a region (point, line, or area) on Earth’s surface or elsewhere. The term location generally implies a higher degree of certainty than place, the latter often indicating an entity with an ambiguous boundary, relying more on human or social attributes of place identity and sense of place than on geometry.

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